"Nothing is older than the end of the world. The apocalyptic passion has always been favored by the powerless since earliest antiquity. What is new in our epoch is that the apocalyptic has been totally absorbed by capital, and placed in its service. The horizon of catastrophe is what we are currently being governed by."
studying surveillance technology and culture is fucking toothless if you don't also consider that citizenship is racialized and gendered and that the "right to privacy" is built around (racialized) ideas of criminality, policing, discipline, and punishment